Comparison of selected methods

of image contrast enhancement

 Introduction
The aim of this project is to implement and compare
selected methods of image contrast enhancement.
Next, the possibility of parallel implementation of
those methods will be checked.
 What is contrast?
Contrast is the difference in visual properties that
makes an object (or its representation in an image)
distinguishable from other objects and the
background.
In visual perception of the real world, contrast is
determined by the difference in the color and
brightness of the object and other objects within the
same field of view.
 What is contrast?
Because the human visual system is more sensitive to
contrast than absolute luminance, we can perceive the
world similarly regardless of the huge changes in
illumination over the day or from place to place.
 Image contrast evaluation
Simplest formulas for calculating image contrast:
methods based on Weber-Fechner law (1,2)
1)
Luminance difference
Average luminance
Where: k is a contrast value,
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- is value of grey-level for piksel P(i, j) of coordinates (i, j)

M×N is size of the image.

2) Michelson contrast

variance based methods(3,4):

3)
e where L is max value of gray-level scale

4)
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Based on difference between gray-level values of neighboring
pixels(5)

5)

image energy based method(6)

6)
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method based on Shannon entropy information theory(7)
7),

Where:
group of new methods based on the idea of aggregating
of local contrast evaluation value obtained for neighborhood
N (i, j ) of pixel of p(i, j ) all pixels in image(8)-(10)
8)

9)

10)
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a) original image
b) GHE(Global Histogram Equalization),
c) CLAHE(Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization) for α=1,
d) CLAHE for α=0,01,
e) GWCE-HE,
f) GWCE-HS for α=0,0025
Comparison of the contrast enhancement
results
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attention